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1 Int | two years spent there had great influence upon his later 2 Int | the court of Frederick the Great, with whom he ultimately 3 I | so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the baptism 4 I | fire.' Likewise Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, 5 II | rfplies the Quaker, "to our great happiness." Then opening 6 III | It was at the time when Great Britain was torn to pieces 7 III | which an officer gave him a great box of the ear, and cried 8 III | oaths. Oliver, having as great a contempt for a sect which 9 III | lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.~" 10 IV | he held forth, and made a great number of converts.~The 11 IV | George Fox, hearing of his great reputation, came to London ( 12 IV | Palatine, aunt to George I. of Great Britain, a lady conspicuous 13 IV | America. In a little time a great number of these savages ( 14 IV | obscure sectary, but as a very great man. The king's politics 15 IV | Pennsylvania he left it, but with great reluctance, in order to 16 V | English clergy have retained a great number of the Romish ceremonies, 17 V | Christian patience to a very great trial, viz., that they shall 18 V | divino; it is consequently a great mortification to them to 19 VI | the severity is twice as great as that of the Romish Church. 20 VI | the two prevailing ones in Great Britain, yet all others 21 VI | goes and is baptized in a great tub, in the name of the 22 VII | This book won the doctor a great number of partisans, and 23 VII | which are now spread over a great part of Europe, that Mahomet, 24 VIII | evil; where the nobles are great without insolence, though 25 VIII | have been involved in as great calamities, and have shed 26 VIII | the last bereaving that great monarch of his life. Weigh, 27 IX | pretended masters. This great Charter, which is considered 28 IX | that happy usurper and great politician, who pretended 29 IX | income of the estates of a great many commoners in England 30 X | Earl of Oxford governed Great Britain, his younger brother 31 XI | inhabitants of it are in as great trouble and perplexity as 32 XI | lost an eye, a third had a great nose at her recovery, and 33 XI | will not fail to compile a great many folios on this subject, 34 XI | genius, and endued with as great a strength of mind, as any 35 XI | opportunity of improving the great talents she received from 36 XI | children to be inoculated. A great part of the kingdom followed 37 XII | thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians 38 XII | Keeper, and himself was a great many years Lord Chancellor 39 XII | study as to make himself a great philosopher, a good historian, 40 XII | them."~You know that this great man was accused of a crime 41 XII | that matter): "He was so great a man," replied his lordship, " 42 XII | far otherwise; all these great changes happened in the 43 XIII | in the mathematics. This great man could never subject 44 XIII | Before his time, several great philosophers had declared, 45 XIII | world are imperfect, and the great abuse that is made of words 46 XIV | Tis not for us to end such great disputes."~This famous Newton, 47 XIV | confessed that these two great men differed very much in 48 XIV | of philosophy, whilst the great Galileo, fourscore years 49 XIV | in the lives of these two great men is, that Sir Isaac, 50 XIV | notwithstanding this, these great men are the subject of everyone' 51 XIV | that Descartes was not a great geometrician. Those who 52 XIV | will not be making him too great a compliment if we affirm 53 XIV | good money, he however did great service in crying down that 54 XIV | of truth, was perhaps as great a genius as he who afterwards 55 XV | vortex which floats in the great one, and which turns daily 56 XV | have destroyed all these great and little vortices, both 57 XV | resistance.~With regard to the great vortices, they are still 58 XV | these fires (unknown for so great a series of years), which 59 XV | the forerunners of some great calamity which was to befall 60 XV | This is attraction, the great spring by which all Nature 61 XV | should have imputed to this great philosopher the verbal and 62 XVI | than twenty-five years. How great would have been his astonishment 63 XVII | there are lines infinitely great which form an angle infinitely 64 XVII | that these have related a great number of fictitious particulars, 65 XVII | historian would commit a great error should he allow three 66 XVII | therefore, allowed too great a number of years, and consequently 67 XVII | doubly deceived, made their great year of the world, that 68 XVII | gentlemen would think it too great a condescension to allow 69 XVII | same time that some very great philosophers attacked Sir 70 XVIII| reflection, which is, that the great merit of this dramatic poet 71 XVIII| always been exhibited with great success. Time, which alone 72 XVIII| some of the beauties of great geniuses, are of infinitely 73 XVIII| have been made on those two great poets.~I have ventured to 74 XVIII| thought: And enterprises of great weight and moment With this 75 XVIII| conspicuous in every part; but his great fault is his having endeavoured 76 XVIII| of Corneille, for Cato is great without anything like fustian, 77 XVIII| pieces hat were written with great regularity, but which, at 78 XVIII| spreads nequally, but with great vigour. It dies if you attempt 79 XIX | author was had in pretty great contempt in Mr. de Muralt' 80 XIX | lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian 81 XIX | Buononcini esteems that great artist, and does justice 82 XX | lawyers, our physicians, and a great number of the clergy, are 83 XXI | him the man of genius, the great poet. Among other pieces 84 XXI | the productions of such great geniuses as have exercised 85 XXI | into the world after those great geniuses who spread such 86 XXI | time when the taste of that great poet was not yet formed. 87 XXI | died was remarkable for a great storm. His poem begins in 88 XXI | must resign! heaven his great soul does claim In storms 89 XXI | approaching fate of his great ruler told."~Waller.~It 90 XXI | reputation they obtained of very great poets and illustrious writers, 91 XXI | led in all things by the great; and who, nevertheless, 92 XXIII| that as the Parliament of Great Britain have promised a 93 XXIII| nation. The English have so great a veneration for exalted 94 XXIII| the arts in England is the great veneration which is paid 95 XXIII| occasion of their becoming great men.~The English have even 96 XXIII| English had paid her these great funeral honours, purposely 97 XXIII| were the victims to it; a great many pieces were published 98 XXIV | glory of that body to a great height even in its infancy. 99 XXIV | academy would have had a very great advantage over those who 100 XXIV | that his predecessor was a great man, that Cardinal Richelieu 101 XXIV | Cardinal Richelieu was a very great man, that the Chancellor 102 XXIV | Chancellor Seguier was a pretty great man, that Louis XIV. was 103 XXIV | Louis XIV. was a more than great man, the director answers 104 XXIV | elect may also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in 105 XXIV | should seem to chew with great eagerness, and make as though 106 XXIV | by being placed at too great a distance, cannot afford 107 XXIV | the French Academy, how great a service would they do